Word: humanitarianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humanitarian terms, the picture is equally grim. In its annual report, the United Nations Children's Fund blames the debt crisis for lowering the quality of life for almost 900 million people over the past decade. If the current trend continues, UNICEF warns, the debt problem will cause the deaths of 18 million children a year by the end of the century...
...international symbol of death and utter destruction, a place where the stench of corpses mingled with fading, desperate hopes that a voice, a whimper or a sigh might be heard from deep beneath the rubble. "A vision of horror," gasped a stunned Dr. Patrick Aeberhard, president of the French humanitarian aid group Medecins du Monde. An estimated 70% of the town's 20,000 population lies entombed, victims of the devastating earthquake that hit two weeks ago. Throughout the region, at least 50,000 are dead, 130,000 injured, 500,000 homeless...
...disaster may yield one positive result: the largest outpouring of foreign aid to the Soviet Union since World War II could produce a surge of goodwill that will further reduce East-West tensions. The disaster held the potential of changing perceptions on both sides: the humanitarian assistance might make the Soviet people view the West as less of a threat, while the pictures of stricken Armenians might make Westerners more sympathetic to the Soviets in general. "It has a humanizing effect," said a senior Western diplomat in Moscow. "It has become part of official policy to express gratitude not only...
Gorbachev's mission was more than humanitarian: it was a major test of his reformist leadership. He knows that out of the despair of Armenia's disaster he must find a way to regain the political trust of a people who over the past ten months have become estranged from Moscow and embittered toward Gorbachev because of his rejection of their nationalist aspirations...
...undesirable and hoped would be temporary. But Shamir is saying Israel's claim to the West Bank is unending and historically just. That is why the outcome of last week's election may pose not only a huge obstacle to diplomacy but also a threat to the political and humanitarian values that Israel and the U.S. have long shared -- and therefore to the essence of a very special relationship...